November 1 - Pan-American
Exposition creditors are encouraged to expect payment upon their claims within
a very short time. At present there is nothing definite except as to the amount
which each will receive from the $500,000 appropriated by Congress. It is
announced semi-officially that the percentage to be paid will be over 90 cents
on the dollar. The exact figures cannot be determined until two or three more
late-received and disputed claims are adjusted. These will not make a difference
in the total of more than 2 per cent. As soon as an understanding on these
is reached the claims as audited, and numbering about 400 separate items,
will be placed in the hands of the committee and sent on to Washington for
endorsement. Then, and not until then, will it be possible to begin payment.

The full amount of the claims will never be
made known to the public. Many claims were received which were barred by limitations
with which Congress hedged its bounty. Many claims were thrown out because
they had already been paid. More were cut down because they had been partly
paid and payments had not been entered by bookkeepers of the creditors.

The process of adjudicating claims has been
slow but it has protected the bona fide creditors, or those pronounced by
Congress to be the only ones entitled to participate in the appropriation
of $500,000, from great losses. It is said that fully $100,000 has been saved
by the scrutiny of every claim, and every item of every claim.

November 10 - (from a display
ad by the J.N. Adam Co.)

Pan-American Souvenirs

A large Pan-American Souvenir company, who were
caught with a stock of Souvenirs at the close of the Exposition, urged
us to make them an offer for their stock on hand. At first we would
not consider it, but upon investigation found that about one person
in every ten in Buffalo had a Souvenir of that grand Exposition we all
enjoyed so much, and which has advertised Buffalo so handsomely all
over the world, and as there is enough in this lot to supply the other
nine-tenths of the population of Buffalo with souvenirs we decided to
make a very low offer for the lot, which was accepted. We place them
on sale tomorrow morning at such extremely low prices that anyone wishing
to secure a Souvenir of the Pan-American can do so at veryt little cost.
About one-half the lot is very appropriate for Holiday gifts, as the
following wil illustrate --

1c

Official Medals, were
25c. Pan Pins, were 10c and 25c.
Assorted hat pins, Beck design, etc. were 10c to 25c.
Leather and Felt Penwipers, were 25c.
View Books, were 10c.
Choice of any of the above for 1 c.

November
14 - [The New York Evening Sun] The
Japanese jinrikisha, which the tourist falls into when he lands at the Japanese
port for the first time and out of when he takes ship to sail away again,
and which he has probably been in a good deal of every day of his stay in
Japan, may be seen, nowadays, here at home, without one's having to take the
trouble of a three weeks' ocean trip. At the Buffalo Exposition in 1901 there
were any number of jinrikisha among the Egyptian donkeys and Arab camels and
Ferris wheels and airships and captive balloons.

Now, somehow, whether
through authentic and final sources or not, the Japanese residents of New
York have heard that there will be 'rikisha at the St. Louis Exposition in
1903, and have risen in indignation. They have protested in their newspapers
against 'rikisha pulled by Japanese for Americans and by so doing they have
shown our genial public some things which it didn't know before about how
'rikisha men and 'rikisha service are regarded in their own country, and just
why they should think that our having 'rikisha at the St. Louis Exposition
would be - of all things in the world - a "gratuitous insult" to
them. This is somewhat astonishing to Americans in general, who may be excused
for failing to see at once why an institution which they had always thought
to be essentially Japanese should excite the anger of the Japanese when transplanted
to this country. To understand the matter it is of course necessary to understand
the Japanese point of view, and the reasons for the general antipathy of the
Japanese toward 'rikisha at the St. Louis Exposition are perhaps best summed
up in an editorial article which appeared recently in the Japanese montly
magazine, Japan and America, published in New York.

"We regret to learn,"
the article begins, "that a plan is on foot in this country to build
a large number of jinrikisha, and to import Japanese coolies (kurumaya), or
jinrikisha men, to pull them about the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
at St. Louis. It is to be hoped that this project, which would be an insult
to all Japanese in this country, will not be carried out. It would be a gratuituous
slur on the Japanese and would be certain to meet with resentment and retaliation.

"Americans generally
are not fully aware of the nature of the jinrikisha service in Japan. They
are too apt to regard the pulling of a jinrikisha as merely a novel spectacle,
and the riding in one as some new experience for which they are quite willing
to pay in some exposition, whether in Buffalo or St. Louis. But the Japanese
regard the service as a disgrace to their country, and are doing everything
in their power to put an end to it. It would be too bad if the promoters of
the St. Louis Exposition should, for the sake of selling a concession, permit
the introduction of the jinrikisha into their grounds. The Japanese did not
relish the site of their countrymen doing this degrading work at the Exposition
in Buffalo, and they have not yet forgotten it. It would be a great mistake
for St. Louis to follow the bad taste and bad judgment of the Buffalo fair.

"The pulling of
the jinrikisha is regarded as a debasing sort of work in Japan, and it is
well-known there that a larger proportion of criminals come from this class
than from any other class of labor. Everyone who has the best interests of
the country at heart is interested in putting an end to the drawing of these
vehicles by men. Unfortunately, the streets of amny of the Japanese cities
are so narrow as to make it almost impossible to use carriages or street cars,
and this has made it possible for the jinrikisha to maintain itself as a mode
of conveyance. But it is fast giving way to private conveyances, to omnibuses
and to electric and horse cars. It is a doomed thing in Japan, and to reproduce
it in the United States as a characteristic Japanese institution would be
nothing more nor les than an insult to the higher sensibilities of the Japanese
people.

"But these considerations
aside, it is not likely that the plan to import Japanese kurumaya or jinrikisha
men for the purpose of drawing American built jinrikishas would be permitted.
it would be a violation of the contract labor law. It is to be hoped, however,
that the exposition managers will not make an appeal to the protection of
that law necessary to protect the Japanese people from a useless insult."

The vehicle which is
primarily the cause of all this was invented more than 20 years ago by an
American. Because it was at once a small, a comfortable and a light running
affair, that one could very nearly take into shops while on shopping expeditions
and in which one could ride all day behind an indefatigable runner, going
into the narrowest byways with it, it quickly came into general use. A class
of 'riksiha men - pullers of the vehicle - was quickly formed and, while the
"criminal classes" may "largely be recruited from them,"
the 'rikisha men in Japan are particularly docile, polite, and hardworking,
except perhaps in the open ports, where European environment may be expected
to spoil native disposition, as it does around the world.

From Japan the jinrikisha
were widely spread, until now there is hardly a country in the East whose
larger cities are not full of them.

While this spread of
the vehicles' use has been so quick as to make 'rikisha manufacturing a profitable
industry in very many Oriental cities, it is really in Japan that the little
carriages swarm most thickly, in spite of what Japan, according to Japan
and America, are trying to do toward driving them out. No Japanese street
scene of today is complete without them, and one cannot often take a photograph
of a Japanese thoroughfare without snapping one at least. Famous geisha are
photographed sitting in them, sculptors make wax and wooden groups about them,
and every Japanese art store sells them pictured in a score of ingenious ways
on fans and scrolls and cards and screens. The well-to-do Japanese family
of Tokio [sic] rides to the theater to see Danjuro in them. The Japanese merchant
of Yokohama clatters in one to his godown for business. The Nagoya belle rides
out by the monument in one, to take the air of an afternoon, and at night
great strings of them wind out toward the crimson suburbs.

Some day the Japanese
may drive them out, as they say they hope to, but just now one sees too many
of them to believe that even in the next few years they will join the old
bronze armor and the gun-hammer, the queue of hair and the two swords of feudalism.
They are only 20 years old, and to become obsolete in Japan a think must be
very old indeed. Still if the Japanese would be bad about our using them here,
we should forgo them by all means. We cannot afford international complications,
even for the jinrikisha.

November 18 - Chairman Byron
D. Gibson of the Board of Supervisors called the County Legislature to order
today at noon, an hour later than the scheduled time...

The following letter was read:

"To the Board of Supervisors:
Gentlemen - Remaining in the hands of the Sheriff are certain effects of the
murderer, Czolgosz, consisting of an old satchel containing an old pair of
shoes, stockings, writing paper, two towels, a pair of trousers, blacking
brush and a box of blacking.

The Historical Society, hearing of this, have
expressed a desire to procure them for historical purposes. They would also
like to have Your Honorable Body donate the handcuffs used on Czolgosz while
transferring him from the Jail to Auburn from the prison authorities for said
Czolgosz.

Very truly,
Frank T. Coppins
Sheriff"

Supervisor Woodward moved that the commuication
be received and that the request of the Historical Society be granted. Admiral
John Morgan O'Connell was on his feet in an instant with vigorous objection.
"I'm opposed to that," he shouted. "When Czolgosz was electrocuted
the authorities at Auburn would not even let anyone see his body. I know of
no reason why the Historical Society should wish to perpetuate his memory
by preserving a lot of old truck such as is mentioned."

The communication was then referred to the
Committee on Sheriff's accounts.

...

November 19 - "There
must be some mistake about Sheriff Coppin's letter to the Supervisors saying
that the Buffalo Historical Society wants the clothing of Czolgosz and the
handcuffs used on him," said Mr. Frank Severance, secretary of the society
today.

"The Historical Society never asked for
them, so far as I know," continued Mr. Severance. "I do not believe
the Society would apply for them, nor accept them."

November 24 - John T. Roberts
suggests a permanent exposition for Buffalo and in a general way outlines
a scheme for financing such an undertaking. "Notwithstanding the losses
of the Pan-American it was of great advantage to Buffalo and was worth more
than it cost," said Mr. Roberts last night.

"Pittsburgh, New York, Cincinnati, Toronto
and other cities have made a success of the permanent exposition idea and
there is no reason why it cannot be successfully carried out in Buffalo. The
Kenilworth property would be an ideal location.

"I would suggest a subscription of $1,000,000,
either bonus or stock, to be made up by the merchants of the city, 10 per
cent to be payable each year for 10 years. This would give the basis for a
good working fund. Talk it up."

November 25 - It is now expected
by the Treasury officials that by the last of next week the long-drawn-out
settlement of the Pan-American claims will have been completed and the numerous
creditors will be in possession of Treasury warrants for the amount of their
claims, less the small reduction made necessary in pro rating the claims to
fit the total amount of the appropriation.

The total amount of the claims, as reported
to the Treasury Department by Trustee John G. Milburn, was $516,019.46, while
the appropriation was only $500,000, thus requiring a slight reduction to
each claimant so that the final settlement is to be made on a basis of 97
per cent of all approved claims. The warrants, which are now expected to be
in Mr. Milburn's hands for distribution within a week, will be drawn upon
that basis.

The long list of names of creditors, together
with the statement of the article charged for, the total amount of the original
claim and the amount to be paid, as furnished to Secretary Shaw by Mr. Milburn,
is now being carefully examined and work will be commenced at once upon the
drawing of the warrants. While the creditors are scattered all over the country,
the great majority are Buffalonians. The list has not yet been made public,
but knowing how anxious the people of Buffalo are to see and read it, the
NEWS correspondent has prevailed upon Auditor Andrews to allow an advance
examination to be made, and the list herewith given comprises in detail all
the names of Buffalo parties who are to benefit by Mr. Milburn's distribution
of Uncle Sam's warrants, the securing of which is so largely due to Representatives
Alexander and Ryan. The Buffalo creditors are: